For Content Creators Overview

Screenrights conducts a range of services in the Film and Television industry. We are appointed by the Attorney General to administer Secondary Royalty collection schemes for audiovisual material in Australia, and operate under a similar framework in New Zealand. In addition, many rights-owners have asked Screenrights to administer secondary royalty collections from the rest of the world.

For information about Disbursements from TV and Film, Collection Account Management, Residuals and more, check out Screenrights' Additional Services.

You need to be a member to receive royalty payments. We have many different types of members, and membership is free.

The Royalties We Pay

Screenrights royalties are often referred to as secondary royalties because they relate to a ‘secondary use’ that flows on from the primary use – being the broadcast itself. Typically, when a film, documentary or TV show is licensed for broadcast the broadcaster pays a licence for the right to transmit the program. When educators, government departments and subscription TV providers perform the secondary use (making a copy, communicating that copy, or retransmitting the program) they also need a licence, but it is practically impossible for a transactional licence to be negotiated efficiently with the rightsholders in the program at the time.

That’s where Screenrights comes in. Screenrights offers collective licences to facilitate transactions between users of screen content and rightsholders of the content that is being used. These collective licensing enable a secondary use.

Specifically, Screenrights administer sections of the Australian Copyright Act that allows educators, government departments and subscription TV providers to perform the secondary uses in exchange for paying “equitable remuneration” to Screenrights. We agree to the fees, monitor what they copy, communicate and retransmit, calculate the royalty payments, and distribute the collections to the relevant rightsholders in the programs.